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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1912)
COOS BAYTIMES,WEEKLYEDITION,MARSHFIELD,OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1912 EVENING EDITION Spring Is Coming w the Vww f1' slJirlinB ilic incubators is here. iid it is altogether in order to look over our stock of Petaluma Incubators Known to bo tlio beat in Uio market. Prices ranging JJto sizo mid capacity. AlLfci?JSiSli3!ii& . From $12.50 to $52.00 UMm on jDVftftE.1 "XnB FRIEND OP COOS BAY" S. S. ALLIANCE EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS SAILS FROM COOS BAY FOR EUREKA, SUN DAY, JANUARY 28, AT 1 O'CLOCK P. M. CONNECTING WITH THE NORTH IIANR ROAD AT PORTLAND NORTH PaJIFIO STEAMSHIP COMPANY. PHONE 44 C. F. McOKOnOE, Agent FAST SERVICE TO ROSEBURG Our Etacos loavo Marshflold for Rosoburg nt 6 o'clock overy erenlng ana afford quickest connections with Southorn I'nclflo Railway. Faro $6.00. COOS DAY ROSEHUItn STAOE LINE. OTTO flOHETTEIt, Agent, 120 MARKICT AV., Mnrshfleld. 0. P. nARNARl), Agent, ROSEUURG, Oro. PHONE 11 FAST AND COMMODIOUS Steamer Redondo EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS AND SUDMARINE HELL SAILS FROM SAN FRANCISCO FOR COOS BAY SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, AT 3 P. M. INTER-OCEAN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. Phone 44 C. F. McGEOROE, Agent. Steamer Homer Sails for San Francisco from Coos Bay, Thursday, Jan. 25, 1 P. M. F. S. Dow, Agent EQUIPPED WITn WIRELESS 5ftamship Breakwater ALWAYS ON TIME SAILS FROM PORTLAND AT 8 P. M. ON JANUARY 0, 10, 23, 30 BAILS FROM COOS RAY AT SERVICE OF THE TIDE ON JAN UARY 0, 13, 20, 27. k II. KEATING, AGENT PHONE MAIN B8-L One of the Finest Places for A LARGE DAIRY RANCH jo Coos County Is a tract of 437 acrea on lower Coqulllo rlvor. Will Ma now at a real bargain price. Gall or write at onco to AUG. FRIZEEN Central Avonue, Marsufield . Phono 181J i -. -i x g&qs EM.emwa. IrWP mr "'liiJyftyl trij .. I -" ""-at yv. :" v--s 3 J!2?.W72 ITI-I t'HTI IT CSOS BAY REALTY SYNDIGATZ. DEALERS jZs AGENTS COAL COLONIZATION. MUM. FARM fWIT. ttMMb wrf T1MDFD jJA'rtS m Organize 6 or mvvmt. COHPAMES A SPSClALTYsZ jtjei 9 prov-,n that Investments In small acre tracts near crowing niM.1. n Prof'able. The 0. B. R. S. has such to offer. Ohms. J. !!!Marshnold, Ore. JAEROPLANE ADVENTURES JT.AlWCSTiONjG Djrjexel, VL When a Man Takes to Flying w Copyright, 1JU, by Ilenry M. Neely. Copyright In Qreat Britain and Canada. All rights reserved. HEN a mnn takes to flying ho enters upon a enrcer which Is tho most trouble somo and yet the most fascinating that has ever been opened up for human beings. Ho Invades a renltn for which nature never Intend ed him. All of his Intulncts teach him that to nscend high nbovo the earth Is to court death and that to trust himself to so flimsy nnd so breakable a thing as an aeroplane Is to go to the utter extrcmo of recklessness nnd dar ing. My admiration Is unbounded for those first men who actually roso off of tho ground In their crudo heavier than air machines nnd defied naturo with their new found toy. Each of us who has followed has had to prove his norvo and his skill, but we know when wo start to learn that tho machines we trust ourselves to nro right, that they will fly If properly handled nnd that thero Is no very great secret nbout It at all becnuso It has been dono beforo a circle to the left, nnd nlmost before I knew It I was back at my starting place nnd hnd stopped tho engine Then Grnhurao-Whlto oxplntned to me tluit a Blcrlot always has n tend ency to steer to tho left when It la running along the ground. This Is duo to tho downward thrust of the propel ler nnd the greater effect of the nlr pressuro on ono side than unother. After being Instructed to steer with my foot lever until 1 gut going nt full speed 1 started off ngalu. This time nt tho first sign of a pull toward the left 1 thruit out my right foot and headed her tho other way. Onco moro 1 hnd to do this, and then 1 nttnlncd full Bpecd and was nblo to keep on In a Btrnlght Uno down tho course Feeling with tho utmost confldenco that tho tying of the wheel would mako It Imposslblo for mo to rlso from tho ground, l bad not tho slightest nervousness ns to tho outcomo of my Journey, nnd I thoroughly enjoyed my dash down that mile of level earth at n rato of nbout thirty or thlrtyflvo miles an hour. Dut again 1 was des tined to a great surprise a uurprlso L KINDS OF JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE TIMES' OFFICE Ml FELT THAT THE HEAVENS WERE TUMBLING ABOUT MX EARS." and wu iiecd merely do ns our prede cessors did. Rut those first men dash ed nbsolutoly into tho unknown. Not long ago Captalu Thomns S. Baldwin, tho veteran balloonist and aviator, Investigated the subject and ns n result ho declared that every be ginner In aviation smashes up $2,000 worth of property beforo ho can got a certificate of competence, and ono can easily Imuglno tho risk to life and limb that Is constantly run wlillo these fledg ling flights nro being made In my own case, when tho mechanics let go of my machlno for my first flight. If looked as though I wcro going to dlsprovo this statement, but it was not many seconds thereafter ' before I showed that. If anything, Captain Baldwin's estimate of cost was altogether too low. My First Lesson In Flyinrj. My first lesson was taken from Grn-hamo-Whlto at Pau. His Blerlot was equipped with an Anzanl motor, for it was beforo tho Gnomo bad been placed upon tbo markot, and It was probably fortunate for mo that my machlno did not hove tho greater horsepower de veloped by tho later typo of engine. I learned as did most of tbo men who have made a success of tbo work. The controls were explained to mo, nnd I mado a thorough study of tho theory on which tho machine operates. I knew what to do to mako tho mono piano go up or down or steer to right or left, nnd I know how to warp the wings to preserve my balance that is, I know them In theory, though I hnd, of course, never tried them In practice. "Now," said Grnhamo-Whlte, "you are to tako a run along tho ground and see If you can steer the machine. Tbo wheel Is tied so that you cannot go up Into the air, and nil you ore to do is to keep going straight and shut Iff your englno"when you como to the end of the field." So my onghio wns started, nnd when Ibo propeller got going at n fair speed gave the signal to the mechanics who were holding tho machine to lot go, nnd I felt myself dash forward smoothly over tho ground. 1 believed that all I bad to do wus to leave the machine pretty well alone and it would go In a straight line until I stopped tho engine, but lu thts 1 was destined to meet with a great sur prise, for Instead of going straight ahead I found myself going around in that taught mo to fly much ns ono tenches a boy to swim by throwing him In tho water and lotting him strlko out for hlraoolf. I Find Myself In the Air. At tho end of tho mllo straight away on tho courso was a rond crossing tbo field at right angles nnd at nn olevn tlon of several foot abovo tho rest of tho ground. Without thinking much about this road nnd feeling porhnps that so Blight and bo gradual an em bankment was not a serious obstacle, I went dashing merrily on and up the slopo toward tho highway. A few minutes later my utter as tonlshment may bo Imagined when 1 suddenly realized that I was not upon tbo ground at all, but was sailing gracefully through tho nlr nt n height of nbout eighty feot abovo tho earth. Tho explanation Is Blmplo enough to mo now. When the front of my ma chlno took tho slopo of tho embank ment It roso until tho slant of my planes was exactly what was neces sary for tho Impact of tbo air to get under them and givo the required lifting power for tho machlno to fly. In other words, tho embankment did for mo what I might bavo dono for myself hod "my wheel not been tied, nnd It sent my machlno upward Into the nlr as gracefully and ns easily as though It had been tvirposely operat ed for that result by tho most skilled aviator. For tho first few minutes my aston ishment was so great that I did abso lutely nothing but sit motionless and let the Blerlot tako Its courso. Then I pulled myself togotber and tried to i remember everything that Grahame Whlto bad told mo about how to man age the machine. My ono thought was to get back to my starting point, for by this time I bad gone beyond the smooth fields and was flying over rough and dangerous ground thnt would have meant Instant disaster bad I landed upon It. So, In order to turn, I Mrust my left foot gently forward, and I shall never for get my thrill of triumph as I found the Blerlot gradually sweeping about In a wide and eusy clrclo to tbo left that soon brought me again back to the smooth Gelds nnd facing toward the direction from which I bad come. An Unexpected Disaster. As I approached my starting place I shoved my wheel gentty forward, as I hnd been Instructed to do to come down, nnd n few momenta thereafter I landed as lightly nt n bird, feeling that my first lllcht hnd Indeed been n triumph 1111111111101' i;i ny way and entirely dln mvm-t tin- discouraging thing- I Ii.mI bcniil nlmut tho dim CUlllt'H of lu,H..lll- l" l.j. 1 landed with tho wind nnd going nt n speed well up between fifty nnd six ty miles an hour, and not twenty feet from where I touched tho ground wns a high fence. Into this 1 crashed at full speed. I felt a sudden Jar and beard the loud noises of splintering wood all about me so loud Indeed that I felt that tho benvens wcro turn tiling nbout my cars. Then I felt an other Jar an I fell to the earth, and when I had recovered my senses suf ficiently to examine tbo wreck I found thnt there was not much left except the sent nnd me. for the sent 1 had no very high regard, but 1 was mighty glad nnd grateful to find that 1 wns ablo to get up and walk about with only a scoro or so of soro spobi dis tributed over my body. 1 must bavo been nu awful sight to behold. From tho very beginning of my flight, uunccustomed ns 1 was to hurtling at such n rato through tho air, tbo wind bad lashed my oyes as though with whipcords, and my eye balls bad becorao soro and Inflamed. Tho oil from tho cnglno bad been dashed back on to my faco, and thero It hnd mingled In grimy brotherhood with tho water that streamed from my eyes under tho lashing of tho wind. It took mo a long whllo to got used to this pain caused in tho eyes by tbo rushing nlr, nnd during tho next few weeks when I began flying with tho Gnomo cnglno 1 got a doublo doso of lubrlcntlng oil In my balr, all over my face nnd down my neck. I flow with tho first Gnomo cnglno ever put upon tbo markot. It was a short tlmo after 1 had taken my lnl tlal lessons from Grahaino-Whlto nnd when I was In tho school run by Ble rlot himself at Pau. It was a vastly different matter to start n flight with this now motor. Instead of having un easy run along the ground nnd lifting nt n speed of nbout thirty miles nn hour, as I bad dono with Grabamo-Whlto'o Anznnl, i now found mysolf rushing nlong nt nearly fifty miles nn hour nlmost no soon as tho mcchnnlcs let go of tho machlno. Hero my poor eyes got a lashing which 1 shall nover forget nnd which "daily nenrly blinded mo until I became accustomed to flying ut this trcmondous speed. I Go In For High Flying. From tho very first tho ouo phaso of aviation that held a really powerful fascluntlon for me was altitude climb ing. No sooner bad I tried my fledge ling wings than 1 looked longingly Into tho ripper air und wanted to climb as far as my cnglno would carry mo. On tho third day of my practlco at tho Blerlot school with tho Gnomo mo tor I decided to tako affairs Into my own hands, and, disregarding all tbo ndvlco that had boon given mo, 1 head cd tho machlno upward nnd climbed close to a thousand feet, when sud denly, ono nftcr tbo other, threo of my cylinders went bad. nnd 1 wns forced to coast dovn to tho ground again. It wan tho result of somo minor defect In tho now engine, nnd when It wus re paired 1 took my equipment with mo to my placo at Benullcu, In England, there to practlco n bit und then try for ray cortlllento, or aviator's license. I beenmo proflclcut In a remarkably short tlmo. Whon I folt that 1 could pass Inspection i had the officials of the English Aero club appoint a day whon I should try for my certificate An otllclal enmo up to wish mo good luck Just beforo my mechanics started tho propeller, and 1 nsked: "What Is tho English height record?" "Paulhan has it." ho replied. "It U 077 feet." "Well," I said as I turned aray, "1 am going to try to beat that" I started off In wldo circles, nnd tho first two times I passed over tbo beads of tho otllclals 1 saw one of them wavo a red flag, tho signal for a naval ofll ccr with a sextant to tako my height Higher and higher I went, but I wns surprised not to see the flag wavo after that, and I camo to earth again, "How much did I do?" I asked tho navy officer. "Ten hundred and forty feet," ho re plied. "You bavo broken tbo English altltudo record, and I bellove you went twice as high as that but unfortu nately tho man who was to signal mo with the flag got mixed up somehow, and 1 only took your height on your first nnd second circles." This lovo of altltudo work has been my constant passlou ever since. Merely to get into au aoroplano and fly no longer has any fascination for me. I want to climb. I want to keep going up until I am suro that I am higher than any man has ever been beforo in a heavier than air machine, and. though not long ngo I almost de termined to glvo up neroplano work, 1 now feel tho deslro growing stronger upon me, and it would not surprise me If 1 tried for unother record soon. Eternal practlco and unfailing pa tience are necessary when tho average tian takes to flying. Day ufter day ho must go out "grass cutting," ns they say at Mlneola when tho novices roll along tbo ground or tnko only short, low Jumps Into tbo nlr. This Is not exciting and it will seem to the would bo pilot that ho is making slow prog ress, but, as a matter of fact, ho Is training his mind nnd bis muscles to work in unison and by Instinct, nnd I this faculty alone Is worth ull the trouble It takes to acquire It onco It is called Into play In u bad spot high abovo tbo earth. It may not bo need ed very often, but, llko u gun in Tex ub, when it is needed it is needed badly. LUCKY LAST LOOK It Preserved the Declaration of Independence In 1814. SAVED IT FROM THE BRITISH. Tho Precious Document Would Hav Been In the Stato Department Whet It Was Burned but For Pleatonton'a. Final Qlaneo Around tha Room. Comparatively few of the present generation know how near to being; lost was onco the most precious of our national documents, the Declaration of Independence. It was during tbo war of 1812. The Declaration of Inde pendence hung for many years lu a frame In tbo state department In the room then occupied by Stephen Plcns onton. Mr. Beaseley. commissary or prisoners of war In London, forwarded to the state department some Loudon newspapers, stating that the English fleets and transports were receiving; troops at Bordeaux, France, with the? Intention of operating against Wash ington nnd Baltimore. Soon nftcr it was learned that the British fleet wu in Cbesapcako bay and thnt It was. ascending the Patuxcnt The ofllclal nnd citizens of tho little capital city were hourly expecting an attack. Upon receipt of this Information, which wns n few dnys beforo tlt enemy entered Washington. Mr. Mon roe, then secretary of state, James Madison being president mounted hi horse, rodo to Benedict a small village on tho Patuxcnt where tho British forces wcro being landed, nnd climbed, an eminence within n quarter of a mile of the village, in order to ascertain tho ntrcngth of the enemy. Being con vinced, after his Inspection, thnt wc bad no force uvnllable that could suc cessfully resist them, ho sent n noto to Mr. Plensonton by n vldctte, ndvlslnp him to sco that the best caro was tak en of tho books and papers of the state department Acting nt onco upon this authority,. Mr. Pleasonton purchased somo coareo llnen nnd had It made into bags of suitablo size, iu which be, assisted by others In the office, placed the books, and other papers. Whllo engaged in this work General. Armstrong, then sccrctnry of wur, passing tho stato department on lib way to bis own office, remarked that he thought they wero unnecessarily alarming themselves, as he did not think tho British were serious hi their intentions of coming to Washington. Fortunately Mr. Pleasonton was of a different opinion, nnd observed that It was tbo part of prudenco to take meas ures to preserve those valuable papers of the revolutionary government Hud Mr. Pleasonton delayed but a few days, had he followed tho ndvlco or tho secretary of war, an Irreparable loss would have been sustained. For tho papers which Mr, Pleasonton had placed In tho courso linen bags com prised the secret Journals of congress, then not published; tho correspondence of General Washington, his commis sion, resigned ut the closo of tho wnr: tho correspondence of Gonoral Grecuce nnd other officers of tbo Revolution, a. well as laws, treaties nnd correspond ence of the department of stato from tho adoption of tbo constitution down to thnt time. Mr. Pleasonton had tho bags carted to n grist mill, which he selected as u nultublo depository. Tho mill, whlcb wns unoccupied, belonged to Edgar Patterson nnd wns situated on the Virginia sldo of tho Potomac, boyoud the Chain bridge, two miles above Georgetown. Tho Inst load bad loft, and Mr. Plensonton was Just quitting tho va cant rooms when, glancing back sud denly to sco whether anything had. been left behind, to his consternation bo saw the Declaration of Independ ence, which bad been overlooked, hanging upon tho wall. Ho hastily cut It out of tho fratno and carried it away with tho other papers. no then began to bo uneasy about tho placo ho had chosen, for If the British took Washington, which he firmly bolloved they would do, and very soon at that, thoy would In nil probability detach a forco for tho pur poso of destroying n foundry for the making of cannon and shot In the neighborhood and, of course, would consider a grist mill too valuablo u thing to be left standing in a country thoy meant to subdue. Mr, Pleason ton therefore visited somo of tho Vir ginia furmbouses, whoso owners wero only too willing to loan him wagons in which to convey the documents to Leesburg, n dlstanco of thirty-five miles. Thero they wcro deposited to an empty liouso, tho keys of whlcb wero given to Rev. Mr. LIttloJohn, who was ouo of the collectors of Internal revenue. Worn out with his labors. Mr. Pleas onton states In a letter, ho retired ear ly to bed that night and slept? soundly. Next morning ho was Informed by the people of tho little tavern where lie Lad stayed that evening that thoy had seou during tho night, tho some boluff the 21th of August, n largo fire In the direction of Washington, which proved to bo tho light from tho public build ings, which tho enemy had set on flro nnd burued to tho ground. When he returned to Washington on the 20th he found the public building Mill burning nnd learned that tho Brit ish army bad evacuated tho city tbo preceding evening in the belief that the Amerlenns wero again assembling: In the rear for tho purpose of cutting: off their retreat Kausas City Times 'Tis well said that man has no great er enemy than himself. Flrenzuolu.